Is 5G Home Internet BETTER Than Fiber?

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@tonyp799100 8 месяцев назад

If you have an option for fiber, that should almost always be your first choice. However, 5g wireless seems like a nice option for the rest.

@albion_i 8 месяцев назад

I have fiber and get 10 gig up and down

@kuva 8 месяцев назад

unless your cell signal is shoddy. than your stuck with coax.

@4n1eu 8 месяцев назад

depends on the price. In Germany a fiber connection can cost 50€/month, while you could get an unlimited 5g plan for like 13€/month if you do some research. I think most LTT viewers would prefer fiber, but if you don't spend 20h+/day online, 5g might be enought.

@theairaccumulator7144 8 месяцев назад

@@4n1euhow unlimited is that unlimited plan with 400+gb of traffic monthly? here the vast majority of broadband plans don't have data caps but all "unlimited" data plans do actually have a data cap, at 50 or 100gb normally.

@PaulGrayUK 8 месяцев назад

@@4n1eu It's also the upstream that many fibre deals give that handicaps, I get better upstream on my 4g broadband than friends on fibre get. Sure latency is nowhere as good if you an FPS fanatic, but acceptable for causal gamers (5g will be better and not got that yet). Heck, how many fiber deals say giga this and that and have an upstream of 10Mbps is kinda shocking.

@Rassiel13 8 месяцев назад

As someone that works in the network side of these kinds of deployments, one thing we run into with using 4GLTE and 5G to individual sites is that depending on the tower's location (and the general region of the sites getting service) you can run into a lot of VHF interference in the form of "Microwave Fading". this can effect not only your individual connection, but connections in the broader area, even powerful long-range transmitters risk running afowl of this problem. Another problem we run into frequently is a form of interference that happens in the upper atmosphere called Tropospheric ducting, where temperature differences between the higher part of the tower (where more powerful transmitters tend to sit) and lower parts of the tower create a kind of airduct preventing the passage of radio waves. Often times there's not much the consumer can do to alleviate these issues. If you've got 5G (or are in an area where 4GLTE is your only option) and you've noticed your internet being flakey in the early morning hours (2am - 8am) this is likely what you've been experiencing.

@fungo6631 8 месяцев назад

>VHF Interference >Microwave fading >Tropo ducting prevents passage of radio waves Yeah no. That's not exactly how it works. First off, microwave isn't VHF, but UHF and SHF. Tropo ducting is a problem not because it prevents passage of radiowaves, on the contrary, it's a problem because they go beyond the horizon and potentially cause interference in the distance. Temperature differences on cell towers also aren't that drastic. It's not like TV towers that are sometimes as high as entire hills, some of which going beyond 500 meters.

@Rassiel13 8 месяцев назад

@@fungo6631 you've never seen a wisp implementation in the states then. And yes, certain regions can produce those drastic temperature differences that create tropospheric ducting.

@moRaaOTAKU 7 месяцев назад

I live next to a cell tower from my carrier 4G 4.5G speeds cut in half while being inside

@nateo200 7 месяцев назад

Most of these issues are HF and low band VHF issues that I deal with in the amateur radio bands but even at 600 or 700MHz you aren’t dealing with these issues accept maybe in extreme cases of rapid temperature shifts but even then. Also LTE and 5G is on so many different frequencies these days that I can’t imagine this being a huge issue that a handover to a different site could fix.

@fungo6631 7 месяцев назад

@@nateo200 You have no idea what you're talking about. Tropo is stronger on UHF than VHF and almost non existent on HF.

@NathanMillerVisuals 8 месяцев назад

The T-Mobile home unit was a game changer for my home! I live in a rural area that never had cable internet so we used satellite. When this came out we were now able to stream RU-vid at higher than 480p, download faster than 5mbps, and game online.

@CommodoreFan64 8 месяцев назад

I live in a somewhat rural area, but we have had cable internet since 07 from Breezeline(formally Atlantic BroadBand), and Frontier DSL, but Breezeline was charging me a kidney each month for 160 Mbps/25 Mbps, and Frontier DSL speeds/prices are a joke, so back in Feb of this year I went to my local T-Mobile store a couple towns over, ended up with the Sagemcom Gateway got it setup in a clear window, and using my TP-Link Deco Mesh WiFi setup I'm seeing speeds as has high as 600 Mbps + down(usually in the high 400's to 500's) and up as high as 150 Mbps(usually in the 80's to 100's) with idle ping times under 24ms and as low as 14ms. My only issues have been where it dumps my IP out in Atlanta, GA about 3 1/2 hours west of me so I have to sometimes trick RU-vid TV with my phone to give me the correct location data for the right channels, along with telling websites my correct location, and to pick up OTA TV signals I had to put LTE/5G line filters on all my TV antennas. But totally worth it for the speeds, and how cheap it is compared to anything else in my area.

@ryanhamstra49 8 месяцев назад

Same. I’ve been happy with it over all, but it’s not perfect and if I could get fiber I would in a heartbeat

@CommodoreFan64 8 месяцев назад

@@ryanhamstra49 No one in my area is offering straight fiber to the home(Frontier claims they are running fiber in my town, but I've not seen jack from them) it's fiber to the node, and copper coxal to the home, and Breezeline charges an arm, and a leg after the initial promotional offers, that don't exist if you have ever been a customer in the past, so for me it's not worth going back to Breezeline when T-Mobile works for my needs, is way faster, and 1/2 the normal price of their slowest plan.

@neondemon5137 8 месяцев назад

Welcome to 2006!

@DontDoubtOurServers 8 месяцев назад

@@neondemon5137shhhhhiiitt in 2006 I’d be over the moon to get 5mbit 😂

@Thorens_Adventures 8 месяцев назад

Where I live the only internet available is dsl. Before I got my tmobile 5G gateway I was only getting 3.5mbps down and 0.5mbps up. Now with my tmobile 5G gateway I now get 257mbps down and 27mbps up and it's all free with the federal connectivity program im on. Thank you tmobile iv had no problems or complaints

@RiseOfAnarchism 8 месяцев назад

I also live rural. How'd you get it free? I've been paying for MONTHS

@Thorens_Adventures 8 месяцев назад

@@RiseOfAnarchism Google federal connectivity program and if your low income,on snap or on Medicare or Medicade you'll ither get your internet,phone knocked down to only 30.00 a month or for free

@burak987_ 8 месяцев назад

I still use xdsl, because it's still only way to use internet in my area. But My xdsl is running 250Mb/s down and 25Mb/s up. I Hope company that runs xdsl and fiber in my country will get fiber to my home soon :D. 1Gb/s would be sooo nice.

@AndrewJVN 8 месяцев назад

@@RiseOfAnarchismu have to be a student or low income

@Kevin-oj2uo 8 месяцев назад

@@RiseOfAnarchismYou can learn more here :www.fcc.gov/acp

@nathancrss 8 месяцев назад

Something that would be good to clairify in the video is that line of sight (LOS) is usually mistakened to be visual LOS by most people. It would be good to clarify RF LOS for radio antennas and dishes which requires the Fresnel zone to be clear of most objects compared to just a straight line in visual LOS.

@Rassiel13 8 месяцев назад

Fresnel interference is the bane of my existence in the job I work at now, and lord help you if there's a body of water around.

@secoh2000 8 месяцев назад

The only option we had till recently was DSL/Starlink in our rural woodlands. Fiber was just rolled through and we are now connected at 1000/1000; I am so spoiled and can't believe how much difference there is from our previous connections!

@tonyp799100 8 месяцев назад

I work for a small service provider and we're 100% fiber now. I can confirm that us technicians are about as spoiled as our customers. It's been a win/win situation for everyone.

@selohcin 8 месяцев назад

I'm a bit envious. I live in a village with hundreds of houses, but we don't have the option to pay for fiber here.

@MRJMXHD 8 месяцев назад

1000mbps up and down? That's incredible.

@scavanger1000 6 месяцев назад

Woah that’s awesome, I just got starlink, upgraded from dsl myself

@dawgpound4501 6 месяцев назад

were getting fiber soon in my area. Our town is very rural and the provider offers up to 1000/1000 also.

@xSKOOBSx 8 месяцев назад

I called frontier to sign up for fiber (their website said it wasn't available here even though it was, which is a different conversation) and they had technicians at my house like two hours later. They even discovered they needed another, different team to help run fiber through the connected unit's attic, and THEY showed up two hours after that. Everything was done in one day. I was very impressed. I also dropped ethernet into each room from the attic myself so I have hardwired internet everywhere now.

@GSBarlev 8 месяцев назад

Did they run the ethernet or did you? I have a Google mesh and have been looking into how difficult it would be to thread cables for ethernet backhaul through my walls.

@xSKOOBSx 8 месяцев назад

@@GSBarlev I did it, it's not horrible if you have access to the top of the walls. I got "old work" gang boxes and a cover plate with an ethernet jack. Drilled a hole in the wood above the hollow wall and dropped the cord in there. Easy peasy.

@TheSonyExperience 8 месяцев назад

Frontier fios was amazing because you don’t need to use their gateway. And they just upgraded to 2gb. Had to move so I got AT&T fiber. Not bad. But don’t like using their gateway

@xSKOOBSx 8 месяцев назад

@@TheSonyExperience as in the thing that converts fiber to ethernet? They said it comes with two boxes, one that does that and the router, which I told the guy to take with him. I don't have any other way to turn fiver into ethernet so I have to use their box and it seems kind of junk. I had to bend the prongs on the power plug because it kept just turning off. Has been find since.

@pcmasterracetechgod5660 6 месяцев назад

Must be in a area with tons of technician availability, I work for frontier and to my knowledge same day installs is not a thing, next day is the quickest

@ultimablackmage 8 месяцев назад

It is in Australia. Our fibre network is constantly breaking down & super expensive, but 5G home broadband is cheaper & more reliable. Been working fine for me when playing online.

@Jehty21 8 месяцев назад

How is 5G more reliable than fibre? I would have assumed that's it's the exact opposite.

@KieranMahoney 8 месяцев назад

Who did u go with, Telstra or optus.

@MrJohnreader 8 месяцев назад

The HFC network is crap!!!

@DpspGamer 8 месяцев назад

Without giving away too much info, what provider and generic area are you? I'm considering switching to 5g home broadband since fibre where I live in Vic sucks for gaming

@voltare2amstereo 8 месяцев назад

Depends on your area, if you have ftth that's best of the lot If you have fttc get the service upgraded to full ftth If you have fttn (like I do) your mileage will vary though mine max can do 85 down, I have a 50 down with exetel and my service is almost rock solid If you have fixed wireless, congestion is an issue in a lot of areas If your on satellite, consider starlink

@nathanbrittin7301 8 месяцев назад

One thing that needs to be discussed is that these 5G home networks are not set up the same as fiber connections. They do not use or offer the same features as wired router. You cannot do port forwarding, which may be necessary for certain home server or gaming setups. And devices do not get unique public IP addresses, they all share one public IP address since most setups are CG-NAT style networks.

@Tupsuu 8 месяцев назад

why would you not be able to do port forwarding on home 5g? You can do it with 4g. Or do they use something different

@winnipeg21 8 месяцев назад

Depending on the network setup can depend on a lot of these factors. It is very easy to give a customer a private IP as a WISP. As for port forwarding that can become tricky depending on your NAT setup. Normally, no you can not port forward unless you contact the provider. But it is possible. As for regular cellular 5G once again depends on the setup, most home hubs i've seen support port forwarding. Private IPs are harder to obtain

@Theinatoriinator 8 месяцев назад

@@Tupsuu Youll probably be behind a cgnat, and you cant port forward through a double nat.

@zukacs 8 месяцев назад

wow going from 3mbps to 250mbps and still whining. you didnt have a server in first place when it was 3mbps. or just keep both for god sake

@UTR1 8 месяцев назад

I'm using port forwarding on a few different Verizon modems as we speak...

@TheawesomeMCB 8 месяцев назад

I know cable companies like xfinity were panicking when t mobile 5g home internet came out. Because xfinity had an monopoly in areas and once they had competition they had to do something to keep people on, like I heard that people got an free speed upgrade.

@alex548554 8 месяцев назад

Xfinity needs to burn in hell, why are their upload speeds so dogshit. It'd take me 25min to upload a 2gb file. Ditched them for a local fiber provider with symmetrical gigabit and no data cap at the exact same price as xfinity, never happier... Also to your point with how bad my experience has been I would go totally out of my way to avoid xfinity, looking towards Verizon/T-Mobile 5g options an settling on one of those before attempting to look at xfinity.

@gundoxcrit1652 8 месяцев назад

Can tell you that never happened in Savannah, GA. 40% of the city the only wired ISP above 5 Mbit is Comcast, and they like to remind you that with pricing. If you want 15 Mbps up you’re paying at least 80/month as of 1/1/2023. With a data cap. I was going to use T-Mobile but they use CGNAT and I thought I’d stick with Comcast for latency. Definitely swapping to T-Mobile in January when my contract is up. As a side note, in many neighborhoods here, ATT still sells 768 kbps internet for 55/month. It’s absolutely insane.

@ShikuTeshi 8 месяцев назад

I only have Comcast in my area and it's easily a monopoly. But they've been good to us. Though I'm in an area where I could get a 3Gbps fiber plan if I wanted to but that's overkill. I get 1Gbps down and 200Mbps up on a coax cable after they finished developing their new duplex mode. Theoretically it can hit 1:1 down and up on coax up to 1Gbps but that was a perfect setting lab test. It would also devalue their fiber plan if they did so.

@raulhidalgo6817 8 месяцев назад

I live in the middle of nowhere where the fastest satellite internet available was 12 mbps download and 5 mbps upload, after tmobile 5g was available for me I get around 400 mbps download and 60 mbps upload. I game with 0 issues whatsoever and has been an absolute game changer for me

@chudchadanstud 8 месяцев назад

Worked wonders for me, virtually zero downtime, I can move house without having to wait for the ISP to connect the internet and I can take it anywhere. I take my router with me on Hotel stays. Had fibre, once a year there'd be some maintenance operation that killed the internet for hours. At one point, it was gone for days because some workers in another town accidentally cut the line. Never had dropouts "for maintenance" in years since I switched.

@jeremyrussell4468 8 месяцев назад

Had cable and tried 5G home internet. Stayed with 5G since it was half the price and speeds were the same if not better. If fiber came along I will go with that but unfortunately I am too far out in the country to expect that any time soon. Definitely worth a try.

@timothymclain 7 месяцев назад

Verizon is $25/mo. getting 300 down, 100 up to each device. AT&T fiber was $100/mo. and got roughly the same speed wirelessly. Loved the savings. Had to switch back after 2 months of testing due to bad lag on video conferencing, voice chat, and gaming. Verizon is perfect for light use.

@ianmangham4570 4 месяца назад

You get seriously ripped off in the states on cell phones, here in England 🇬🇧 I can choose from hundreds of networks

@swankshire6939 8 месяцев назад

My town of 1700 has our own isp, that unlike charter(the previous monopoly) they actually service EVERYONE in the area. Fiber lines on every major street, and if you're too far away from a major road they have antennas and dishes for wireless Internet, with towers all over the place.

@karenpff2010 7 месяцев назад

NE Scotland checking in here 👋 My parents live rurally and for the longest time, they had ADSL broadband - it was slower than a sloth and pretty much useless, and they were paying through the nose for the privilege. I bought them a 4G router, popped in a SIM and off they went! They had usable internet!! They could stream, they could do their shopping online etc! They don't have 5G in their area yet, but that will be the next step up when it happens. 4G is more than adequate for general internet stuff, plus its a fraction of the cost of a major ISP providing ADSL internet. Yes starlink is out there too now, but its very expensive (seen some dishes in our area) but 4G is pretty awesome (and affordable) when before you had f-all to begin with. Sure, 4/5G is no big deal if you live in towns and cities....you have cable and fibre which is silly speeds - but don't dismiss wireless internet - it has it's place and it most defiantly being taken up by rural communities like ours :-)

@McGreish 8 месяцев назад

Done this years ago with 4G+. Entirely possible, sometimes even more reliable than home internet. Worked well for two people at least. 5G was a thought in my mind though 5G routers can be extremely expensive to use cheaper than home internet. Though I can get the same speed in my house, the response time likely won't be as consistent or great. You also need to find a provider that does unlimited and doesn't cap the data if you use too much.

@hiRyan329329 8 месяцев назад

If in a area where your ISP goes out sometimes it is definitely a great failover option as you can easily find some used Cat 16 and 18 4g modems/routers for much cheaper than the 5g ones. And with a CAT18 modem and some good 4x4 antennas with decent reception you can see anywhere from 200mbps-1,200mbps (similar quality 5g can ofc see upwards of 3gbps)

@riqdotwav 8 месяцев назад

I was using my phone's 5g signal via USB tethering for a few months when I was living in a shared apartment in Vienna, when I couldn't get a fiber contract because of the two-year minimum term of the contract. (I planned to move out). It actually worked great. The 300mbits down and 50mbits up were transmitted around 90% of the time, as per phone plan. I could even play CS with a ~35 ping with minor dropouts every ~4-5 games.

@matthew8153 8 месяцев назад

Don’t tell them about moving out until you do so. Then the contract is cancelled without any fees, or at least that’s how it worked in America back when our providers used to require contracts.

@aprxmt4690 8 месяцев назад

I used Verizon 5G UW internet for several months and absolutely loved it before I moved to a new home where it wasn't available. You simply can't beat 215+ mbps downloads for $25. I was paying $60 for 300 from spectrum before that. Granted it got spotty at times but it was still plenty enough bandwidth for at least 2 hd streams.

@odinsudons 7 месяцев назад

I have T-Mobile 5G home internet and I love it. It's $50 a month($30 if you have cellphones with them), no contract and no equipment fees. I average around 500-600 down and around 80 up. For a house of two with gaming and streaming it works perfect. No hiccups or complaints after about 6 months of usage.

@austin270sanders3 8 месяцев назад

I don't have any options for fiber or dsl where I live, but fortunately, I got T mobile home internet, and it's great for me it's bundled in my bill for $30 a month. I live in a very rural area, and I get speeds up to 100mbps, and it can fall to 40mbps, but averages about 60 and gaming works surprisingly well. I'm satisfied for the price and the only other option is satellite, which is way to expensive. My neighbors have satellite and they're stuck with a contract, data caps, and slower speeds for 5x the money

@hiRyan329329 8 месяцев назад

Got I hate those satellite plans, read the fine print and you realize how much more of a scam they are. Those data caps are brutal, you pay so much for so little speed but then they give you a 5-30gb cap for the entire month then it drops to 500kbps or so. At first was gonna go for Viasat's 60mbps plan then I saw it was $300/m and you only got a like 30gb cap, after that went gray market with a verizon phone plan jammed into a $400 router and a fancy outdoor antenna ($40/m Visible plan and I get like 200mbps)

@evilleader1991 8 месяцев назад

#ad ?

@hiRyan329329 8 месяцев назад

@@evilleader1991Nah, just a genuine use case for these as some places quite literally don't have wired internet available

@kraizyace2612 8 месяцев назад

I've highly considered it for some time, but because you have to commit to a specific carrier and since I've already sold my soul and more to T-Mobile, I had no choice but to go with cable since that's my only option (living in the barracks on a naval base and what not). Reception is terrible and I'm not about to spend money to find out if a different carrier can deliver. Also, thanks to the monopolies that be, my ISP of choice (not my choice, only option available) happens to have a euphemism of a name.

@johnslugger 4 месяца назад

*For the Money its better then DSL. The great part About SIM ROUTERS is that the Upload time is the same as the download time or 350 MBS both ways! My DSL was fast on the download but only 17MBS on the upload! Having a super fast uplaod makes a live or death difference when gaming! Plus the ATT sim card plan is only $25.00 per month with my military discount. Sure they tell you 40GB maximum but I get over 350 GB per month at full speed. Being in a rural area has advantages in this case since our tower has so little traffic. *

@Greg-ko4ow 8 месяцев назад

One thing to note is apartment living in the U.S. I currently have one option for wired Internet service (which is owned and run by the apartment complex I live in) while other faster services are available around me but not available to me. The reasoning is that the owner of the complex would have to run multiple wiring options throughout and offer them to everyone and that would be costly for them and destructive to the buildings themselves. Would really like to have one or more wireless Internet options that doesn't require the running of wires and drilling of holes but gets high Gigabit speeds (the service I currently have tops out at about 200 mbps on a good day but drops to 25 mbps frequently which is still ok for certain things but way too slow for others). There are certain things I'd like to see in my Internet which may not even be possible yet. I'd like a wireless Internet connection with gigabit speeds that comes directly from satellites or towers that need no direct line of sight, pass through concrete and metal structures as though they weren't there and doesn't cost more than I make in a month. Perhaps someday as technology advances or investors are willing to take a chance it may happen or I may just be living in my mind's fantasyland.

@angelowilliams6539 4 месяца назад

Think they are working on broadband via fluorescent light bulbs or Li fi

@prongles3847 8 месяцев назад

Picked up a 4x4 MIMO outdoor antenna to use with the T-Mobile unit. Went from 40/5Mbps to consistent 450/80 in a rural town where I cant even pick up broadcast tv. 15~25ms latency.

@davidturczak7253 17 дней назад

You get the ones from waveform ? Heard those are really good and not too many complaints. 4:33

@prongles3847 15 дней назад

@@davidturczak7253 sure did. I got the whole kit on Amazon they sell. Still works great, been going strong for 1 1/2 years now

@Shiggstream 8 месяцев назад

I advise anyone to make sure you get a trial period for any 5G or WISP service, as the number of variables is simply too great to get an accurate idea of performance without installing the service. Since coverage maps are merely marketing and not based on real world data, you could absolutely be in a dead zone for certain providers.

@sir.fender6034 7 месяцев назад

I used TMobile 5G home internet because my fiber line was cut by ATT. The service worked excellent and I was getting around 300 Mbps download and 13Mbps upload on average. My fiber line was eventually restored and I kept the 5G gateway just in-case of another outage.

@CozyCreationsYT 6 месяцев назад

This just happened to me over this past w/e. ATT was putting in more fiber in our neighborhood and cut the line. We were without service for most of the w/e. I was looking into solutions and found out about TMobile 5g. Our fiber hasn't gone out in 3 yrs but wow when it's down, it's down for hours/days. Wish I could afford another bill and having 5g as backup would be great peace of mind.

@franklincastillo3748 7 месяцев назад

I have the T-Mobile 5G home internet I totally recommend it The only problem is if you live in a rural area because they want to charge you a data cap of 100 GB for every $50 so you could do the 300 GB plan that they have but you have to pay $150 per month

@youdontknowme5969 8 месяцев назад

well, doing RDP over 5G was frustratingly very jittery for me. While the speed might have been there, the latency/jitter was all over the place. YMMV

@Demopans5990 8 месяцев назад

I think its based on how old your home is. Wood vs brick basically

@brucemurray3350 8 месяцев назад

I've been on Verizon 5G Home Internet since last December. Significantly better than what I used to have since where I live couldn't get more than 50mb down. I have one desktop, which the modem directly connects to. Everything else runs on Wifi. Recently updated my MacBook Air to macOS Sonoma and update took maybe 10 minutes or so to download. I mostly focus on streaming but been playing some Star Trek Online recently with very few issues.

@price.gaines 7 месяцев назад

My parents’ only wired options are centurylink DSL and Xfinity cable. They switched from ctl to xfinity a few years ago and got better speed and reliability for a while but after a year or so started dropping connection at least once a day. They were paying something crazy like $90 for 200/5. Just convinced them to switch to T-mobile 5G and they saved over 50% a month while consistently getting 250/250 or more and just a short dropout every couple of weeks that resolves itself quickly. They’ll never be going back to xfinity, thank GOD.

@Weather_Nerd 6 месяцев назад

Beyond grateful to have TM 5g for the last 7-9 months. Was stuck on Att dsl for uh since 2008; began with 1.5Mb DL plan, upgraded to 3Mb after a year and that was my best option for a good 10-12 years. Finally they let me get their 5Mb uverse plan which actually netted me 6.5Mbps DL and just about 1Mbps UL, and that was a game changer for me with 1080p video finally being streamable lol. The dsl was extremely stable and never fluctuated which I liked, and the ping was great for gaming but boy did big game updates take forever- approximately 2.3-2.7GB per hour download. My T Mobile mostly runs from 130Mb down on a bad day to anywhere from 150-245Mb on average, and upload usually 20-30Mb on a bad day or 40-80Mbps range is my common numbers. Words can’t even express how nice it is to have such speeds! There are nearby cable lines but they never ran them to my road and don’t plan on it either so this is the next best option and I wish it existed for YEARS but better late than never! For reference, the nearest tower is 1/4 to 1/2 mile away, slightly higher in elevation, and we have some trees between us but if all the trees were gone I could probably just barely see it from my home. Modem is in a window. I don’t think it always matters as I have had speedtests be the same but my 5g signal on the modem fluctuates between 3 and 4 bars out of 5

@fabiots1234 7 месяцев назад

5G home internet user here and, funny enough, my router is the same as the one they’re using on the video 😂 The main reason I chose to go this route is for freedom of options: I rent my apartment and management forces us to use fiber from a specific vendor (which we all know leads to inflated prices). I happen to be fortunate enough to live in between two cell towers, so signal here isn’t a problem. I consistently get over 500 down and 35 up, and latency is pretty decent for gaming From my experience, I definitely recommend going this route if you fall in a similar situation

@blankmeme224 7 месяцев назад

Yeah, I am looking forward towards this route too, my ISP speed is 50mbps, but I am certain I can get faster speeds with 5g.

@mrpeebsshorts 8 месяцев назад

Something else to consider is that Verizon's home internet router/modem combo artificially throtles the speed to 300mbps even if you have faster speed available in your area. for example, I typically get 700-800mbps down on my phone while no matter where I put the modem/router I always get 300mbps down and around 30mbps up. from what I understand t-mobile's home internet does not have an artificial speed cap like verizon does.

@chancepaladin 8 месяцев назад

tmobile doesn't have a cap but they'll throttle you if everyone's using it at once. but when you're in the middle of BFE, that's basically never. and they also cap the users per tower and won't allow more folks to sign up, either. so it's actually pretty damn good.

@Jehty21 8 месяцев назад

@@chancepaladindoes that mean you can't use it for travel?

@Zombowfy 8 месяцев назад

I’ve had so many problems with the 5g router and Verizon, They oversold in my neighborhood and told me I couldn’t get a new router cause the old LTE one was defective, gave me a new one after 2 hours of arguing with support and then when I got it, Only peaks at 300/ 25 for only 30 minutes then goes to 50 to 100- 5g tower only 2 miles away worst internet I’ve had also you need to pay 90$ for the phone plan to get the 25$ internet it’s bad also the ping was so inconsistent it was either 70-80 on good days or over 200.

@DakotaTheRota 8 месяцев назад

@@Jehty21 You can use it and it'll work fine as long as you are in the right places, but it's against the contract you sign with Tmobile. But from what I hear, they don't actually enforce it. So my bet it's something they have to put in their contracts for some legal reason I don't know about, maybe some FCC rule.

@hiRyan329329 8 месяцев назад

I'll take a speed cap over TMHI's shared NAT issues. If you do ANYTHING that involves gaming with friends or something that requires a even slightly open network you quite simply can't do it. For instance I needed 5g internet as a failover since ISP was having issues for a long while, I run a lil plex server for my family as well as I tend to be the one hosting games for my friends, either as dedicated ones or simple things such as inviting my friend to play Stardew Valley with me. On TMHI it was impossible to do these while on Verizon 5g home I got that full 300mbps almost every second of every day, servers worked, and I was always getting their cap. Yeah my phone got faster service but the 300/30 was more than enough for me (as well as 98% of you out there)

@billboneless 8 месяцев назад

There is another pitfall in that the carrier provided cellular gateways can be pretty batebones feature-wise so if you're prosumer who does advanced networking tasked, you may be not be able to, or may need to invest in a 3rd party cellular gateway, which can be pricey and also tricky to get working with the service

@Eoin-B 8 месяцев назад

I used to have fiber in the city (though fiber to hub, then cable to home), I had 150mbs but in the evening contestion made it 40 or so. I'm far in the countryside now, got a 5g satellite looking antane 5ft above the roof and it's stable as hell at 70mbs with no contestion. For the remote countryside it's hands down the best if you fork out for the good antenna.

@fightingfalconfan 8 месяцев назад

The last wireless internet I used was OK at best. A company called ClearWire and I always had to have the modem on my window sill for the best connection. We had that because we had Comcast and couldn't afford their price hikes any longer. We had finally got Verizon fiber to the home and it was a game changer. Granted it still fed a coax gateway at that point but it was fast and reliable for everything. These days I have fiber to the home where I live now and I am never going back unless I have no choice.

@watcher206 7 месяцев назад

Until fiber internet rolled out in my area about 6 months ago it was pretty much a choice between wireless internet (connect gradd.), satellite internet, or mobile hotspot. Connect gradd was so bad that I would get maybe 35 kilobytes per second on a good day. So just imagine paying $40 per month for dial-up Speeds, in 2019. But hey at least they didn't have a data cap, so just leave your computer running for a month to download a steam game. Satellite did do better as far as internet speeds go. I don't remember what the exact Speeds, but exceed had a 10 gig data cap for $50 per month... which might be fine for a phone but it's pretty much nothing for a computer in 2021. Then the moble hotspot.. in my case the ISP was t-moble. For the most part it worked all right, no 2000s era data cap, and got 300 mbps most of the time. However there is one big caveat with all cellular isps... and that is incoming connections are blocked. Which means if you want to host a game that doesn't use steam networking you would need to use a tunnel proxy vpn in order to bypass the ISP block. Given the Alternatives I just listed I signed up for Fiber service as soon as it rolled out of my area 6 months ago and I'm glad I have it. 1 gig up and down.. (At least on a Lan connection.) No blocks to bypass, and there isn't a data cap. Never going back to anything else if I can help it.

@BLASTIC0 8 месяцев назад

i have the tmobile thing. I was impressed. I got it just to try it out, but it is faster than my cable modem! latency isn't quite there (its better with ATT & Verizon, but the speeds are slower overall, I hear) but its more than usable even gaming. What's great is its portable... powed by USB C 15w max, I can take it anywhere and have unlimited for $50/month

@ItsHatlolOfficial 7 месяцев назад

I had 5G broadband for a bit while I was living in a place for a couple months... It's actually really good. I was able to play through Geforce now at a very high bitrate with minimal ping, and still getting atleast 250/250 mbit.

@MatthewSuffidy 20 дней назад

I was paying like $85/mo CDN on a combined land phone line and 10mbit DSL. Then I got annoyed with how much the land line was costing and that it was breaking down. I got a cell plan for $85 with 20GB of data then it goes slower but did not cost me anything. Well later I upgraded to 110GB for $110 after tax again, and I am very happy with it. At this time it is fine and I can take my internet anywhere. Also I don't have a separate sim for home use, I plug my iphone by usb into a openwrt router. It does the same thing.

@Piranha0908 8 месяцев назад

One issue is the ip associated with your home will change monthly or weekly. If you use some of the cord cutting options you might have issues there.

@BPBomber 8 месяцев назад

Been doing this for a few years with no issues other than location services in apps and google searches often believe I’m thousands miles from where I actually am. Just have to be careful I don’t order for pickup from a home depot 7 states away.

@nathanflannery3031 8 месяцев назад

As someone who is on 5G home internet (edit: T-Mobile) after being on 80-400 gig cable previously, I can say that 5G is really crap (at least in my case). Sometimes/days the connection is fine with like 80 gig down and 15 gig up, other days it struggles to stay connected and a single Twitch stream stutters even with no other network traffic. I'd compare it to the early days of wireless mice vs wired mice, the cord is 100% superior.

@deepspacecow2644 6 месяцев назад

Unless the cord is 60+ years old and twisted pair

@stal2281 8 месяцев назад

In Germany, *YES*. It's insane how bad our internet is. I am lucky to have 50 Mbit/s. Only one provider can supply that. Everyone else can give me only 2 Mbit/s. My ping is always over 140 ms and rightfully ISPs only have to deliver about 50% of the bandwidth they advertised. Latency is not included, so they are off the hook.

@andresoares2110 19 дней назад

Wow, in Brazil ultrafibre optics 550mbps from Tim is the norm for just 16 usd

@abendroid 8 месяцев назад

I remember moving to a new housing area fiber was not available so hard to resort 4G for Internet, and the experience was pretty good. Of course now fiber is available I stop using 4G but its good to know the tech is good enough to cater to people who couldn't get fiber at all.

@ebsolas 8 месяцев назад

Been using Tmobile's home internet for a while now and it's so much better than what we had before. Being charged nearly $200 a month for 80mbps down 10 up vs $50 for 200mbps up & down was night and day. I'd recommend it to anyone. Old internet was copper cable, and it went down 2-3 times a week and we got literally laughed at and told "what are you going to do about it" when we tried to get our pricing reduced after they raised the price $30 in one month. Haven't had a problem or price hike after 5 years now.

@konadesu 8 месяцев назад

Ran 5G for a backup connection at home for a few years, using an external antenna pointing at a mast around a mile away using 5G n78 (midband) Got a solid 500mbps download, 20mbps upload and 15ms latency. One big thing to mention however as a continuation to 5G more often than not using a 4G backbone (5G NSA) it would mean if you go the antenna route you'd need to make sure you get a good connection on 4G AND 5G since they both will need to be connected at once and it's not uncommon to only have 5G scheduled when you have higher load so you may notice your latency increase when there's less load on your connection.

@daydream605 7 месяцев назад

Where i live we dont currently have the infrastructure for full fttp. We use VDSL, which emulates a phone line for connectivity to the router. Its hybrid fiber. 54mbps down 20 up.

@fishgoboom3098 8 месяцев назад

Switched from Cox to T-mobile and get way faster speeds for less than half the price and barely any increased latency. They have also been more reliable as Cox would have “service issues” every couple weeks. I was skeptical at first but now I recommend 5G internet to everyone. (Depending on their region/location of course)

@brutussweep 8 месяцев назад

I tried both T-Mobile and Verizon's 5G home internet... it's okay for video streaming but horrible for online gaming. Went right back to fiber.

@JohnnyManu40 8 месяцев назад

Since I've used many of these forms of connections, let me just break it down to an easy list for folks who want something quick and easy. 1. Only use satellite 'space' internet if you have nothing else at all. 2. Use WISP/terrestrial tower based connections if you can't get a wire. Don't expect anything faster than 50 megabits per second down, or 10 up; max. They tend to like to keep things to a 10:1 ratio asynchronous. Some exceptions may exist. 3. Consider leasing high altitude building space or land to the ISP near you for a terrestrial tower if you can. You can get a deal on internet. Possibly paid too. Deals may vary. This helps them flesh out their network in that area if they are looking to do so. 4. If you can get a wire dug in for a rural area, consider spending extra to get a fiber line installed somehow. Even if you have to borrow money and repay over time. It won't be cheap to get connected to a fiber line backbone in rural areas, but it does let you get setup as your own ISP if you do it right.

@stranger242 8 месяцев назад

I used T-mobile home internet for 2 years, and for 99% of the US it would probably be fine in areas where it was strong. I had no issues 99% of the time, though competitive gaming latency was still not nearly as good, but streaming netflix and working from home all worked fine.

@john.ellmaker 8 месяцев назад

I tried home and business versions from both tmobile and Verizon as well as clients also trying. About 1 in 4 keep it and the rest were not just unhappy with the performance, they were extremely upset with the customer support from those companies. Tmobile was near impossible to terminate from their one month trial and had no method to return the router which after a time period would trigger an enormous failed to return equipment invoice. Ymmv for sure. Like the video says, if your needs are simple and you have strong 5g or ultra 5g it’s worth $50/mo no contract but there’s a lot of people who it won’t nearly be equivalent to fiber or cable.

@alkanstvdxing 8 месяцев назад

Wake up, A new Techquicke video.

@danielendresz2033 8 месяцев назад

I can get faster 5G than WiFi at home but wired is always more responsive.

@gbtest85 8 месяцев назад

You should also mention the impossibility to have static IP, use NAT or open ports on most (many all) LTE/4/5G and WISP operators...

@iamdenislara 8 месяцев назад

For 80% of the people this is just fine. I had it for 5 months and it worked just fine.

@2008gagiudaniel 8 месяцев назад

It sure took you long to reach this conclusion. I have been using a "mobile" internet connection for years now. Although recently I had the possibility to get an optical fiber internet connection I still prefer the versatility of the unlimited 5g router connection. Thank you.

@Omnicronous 8 месяцев назад

Actually use 5g Internet at my house, $30 a month compared to a minimum $100 from Xfinity or Star Link.

@gus473 8 месяцев назад

Starlink in my rural US location is $90, unlimited data. And after waiting 19 years we now have fiber optic available if there's ever a reason to change, and we got a quote of around $60/month.

@Monarch_04 10 дней назад

Friend:What's your wifi type? Me:wisps

@MCCENTx2 8 месяцев назад

Straight $50/month all fees included. Free modem/router to use. Cancel anytime. Unlimited data. 150Mbps down. And the ping is sub 10ms. I was skeptical at first but it's actually great in Michigan

@davidroddini1512 8 месяцев назад

5G is great for internet access but fiber is better… for constipation 😂

@Kroko84 5 месяцев назад

I remember when 5G was still in the hype phase before it was even introduced into the market, the promise was virtually latency-free wireless internet (provided the server you connected to was fast and close enough to where you are, of course). That turned out to be far from the reality.

@James_Knott Месяц назад

According to what I read recently, my ISP is planning to offer 5G backup. I'm on a cable modem, but they also offer fibre. They also have several 5G bands between 600 MHz and 3.5 GHz. I have set up several businesses with 4G backup.

@PaulSman123 8 месяцев назад

I have had the Tmobile 5g for over a year now and it has worked amazingly for me and I live in Fort Worth TX. I can download games from steam and other programs at 40+mbs and have 0 lag issues while playing call of duty or other online games.

@Friend_of_Mara 8 месяцев назад

My family got a 5G home internet modem. The download speed is usually a few hundred megabit, and upload is pretty decent. The glaring flaw is the cellular network isn't capable of handling any bandwidth for upload, no matter the speed. So multiple people gaming will cause the modem to temporarily fail. Playing games with servers isn't a problem, but peer-to-peer will kill the modem.

@whaduzitmatr 7 месяцев назад

I got 'unnamed letter name based 5G internet' in September 2022. At first it had latency issues, drop outs especially at prime time hours (7 to 10pm) could not game at those times. The router also needed to be reset regularly, around january or february something changed it became much more reliable I can game pretty much whenever (even had 2 PCs gaming at the same time over the weekend) abd download speeds sometimes reach 400 mbps. And thats all in an area where fiber internet does not reach. Pretty good i must say

@ConnerPanaro 8 месяцев назад

I have this in the UK. I get between 200-500mb down. Which is a big improvement from my FTTC connection which tops out at 80. Getting FTTP soon which should give consistent gig but we'll see

@calebslater3715 8 месяцев назад

Anecdotal but at my apartment 5G was much better but something I’d recommend most people wait a few years for. My experience was very finicky and had issues where I ended up going back to fiber. But when it works it’s so much faster and in my area, so much cheaper

@SamPhoenix_ 8 месяцев назад

When I moved in to a multi occupancy property, I didn't know where the modem was and didn't have a good connection, 5G was an actual life saver in that flat bc I got it and plonked it down within my first weekend and was even able to game online for the most part, then just took it with me when I moved. Then when I then moved into my flat, the building only had ADSL so was 10MB/s max & 5G was a great alternative, but when they installed fibre to the building it was awful in comparison. It fills a nice void if you can't get fibre to the property or fibre is too expensive, but if you can get FttP affordably, then there is no beating it.

@UliDaNihilist 8 месяцев назад

I use T-Mobile 5G Home Internet service and absolutely love it. I used to have Comcast's 900mbps plan that cost $90 a month and only had a 36mbps upload speed. Now I pay $30 a month for TMHI and I get 300-600mbps download and 80-100mbps upload speeds, depending on time of day. I live less than a quarter of a mile away from the tower and my connection stays rock solid. For the price, it's amazing and has been much more reliable than Comcast.

@PiterStreak 8 месяцев назад

This is my scenario as well. I has spectrum 300 down and 30up for 50 a month. Then they take it little by little to the point it was 90 a month. Switched to T-Mobile home Internet and get 300-600 down and 20-75 up for a fixed $50/Month

@omkarkanase1349 7 месяцев назад

Come to India I have JIO 5G which gives me 1GBPS and because 5G is experimental in India it is free and I have unlimited data

@BPBomber 8 месяцев назад

AT&T wireless + NetGear Nighthawk 5G modem + eero mesh network via Ethernet cable = fantastic whole house wireless coverage at download speeds ~180Mbps & upload of ~25Mbps for around $43 USD / month. My household doesn’t game but we stream about 350GB of video data per month. We often have 4 devices simultaneously streaming video with rarely an issue. The speed and latency fluctuations are a definite drawback but they’re not so bad as to be a dealbreaker. It’s been nice to finally be able to fully break away from Xfinity.

@dr_ari_gami 8 месяцев назад

Many wireless home Internet providers will actually prioritize your traffic last. They usually prioritize premium customers, then regular customers, then hotspots, and then home Internet.

@spoolin55psi 7 месяцев назад

I’ve got the t mobile set up one for my home and one for my tv van “which uploads lots of video to Dropbox” and in most places it’s pretty quick some places not as quick and other lighting fast but overall it’s been very confident for moving around.

@SpaceDave3000 8 месяцев назад

I have Verizon 5g and it goes from being pretty much 1gb symmetrical to 56k dialup depending on the weather or whether or not I am wearing blue. It's inconsistent, but it's mostly solid with dips and peaks. Have to have the modem glued to the window though.

@PenguCC 8 месяцев назад

T-Mobile's home internet is actually deprioritized from Phones. Since they are a phone service company and not specific for home internet they prioritize phones over home internet. So your speeds can drastically change throughout the day or drop horribly for months. At the time of writing I've went from 200 down and 20 up to 42 down and 9 up. Even with higher speeds my latency is anywhere from 80-100 on a good day, with ping spiking as high as 1000 at around midnight to 3am.

@jaimechavarria177 8 месяцев назад

I had Verizon home internet in the city of San Francisco, CA with a MMwave Modem! 2-2.6gbits down, and 200-350mbits up! And with the M1 Ipad Pro that I have, it would hit 3gbits down in the area Minna St and Russ St. Only paid 25$ for the plan.

@Techfanatic73 7 месяцев назад

Used TMobile home 5g for about year and a half. Only $50 a month or $30 if you have a phone with them. Never had one issue. Fiber is great but this was a third of the price. Got 300-400mbs consist and used about 1.8Tb a month. Even worked good with GeForce now.

@elitestar 7 месяцев назад

Verizon 5g home has been a game changer for me. I was paying $50-60/month for 400 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload speeds from my local cable provider. Now I'm paying $25/month for 1Gbps download and 150-200 Mbps upload.

@garfballs7 8 месяцев назад

The bottom line is that cellular internet is really for areas with no better options. I have it and couldn't be happier. Here's why: - No cable or fiber internet available, period. - Only 1 WISP available. Very poor speeds. - Traditional satellite, extremely slow, extremely expensive. - Starlink, fast, I tried it and liked it, however, it's simply too expensive. Also, moderate to heavy snow or rain kills it. - Cellular LTE/5G, cheap, fast, better performance in bad weather. Only compromise is mediocre latency (40 - 80ms) Until Starlink lowers the prices or faces real competition, T-Mobile specifically is doing rural internet correctly. They're headed in the right direction.

@DeadHawk23 8 месяцев назад

2:39 I was really expecting him to say it wanted to delete me.

@PlaceboPharmacy 8 месяцев назад

I live literally one mile away from cable internet. Until I got the 5G/4G/LTE internet with my cell service about a year ago, satellite internet was my only option. It is faster and there are no data limits like I had with satellite. If a fiber connection isn’t available in your area, definitely check to see if any cell service can reliably reach your home.

@josephwest9721 7 месяцев назад

Back around 2009 in a rural area that had no cable options we had clear I can’t remember the whole name but it ran on a WiMAX network it slowly got upgraded over time to get better speeds but I still remember it being on sprint towards the end around 2015 maybe

@danytoob 8 месяцев назад

I've been using Verizon 5G for about a year now and is been really good. Consistently hovers at 300 down, 20 up. Available cable service for that speed would cost about double (after first discount expires) and I don't like the provider, Spectrum. Super east install...just plugged it in, up and running 3 minutes later, literally. No fiber where I live so this is as good as it gets for now.

@MoldyStir-Fry 8 месяцев назад

I replaced my satellite with T-Mobile 5g (rural area, no cable) and it was a MASSIVE improvement. Maybe it isn't the best Internet around but such a breath of fresh air to be able to play games online again! I'm saving a lot of money over satellite too!

@zamex23slo 8 месяцев назад

5G mobile internet in Slovenia just came, great in rural areas. 300/60 21ping...17€ per month for 2 years

@fyrentinnimar 8 месяцев назад

I have 5G and Cable internet. I use my 5g when my cable internet is down and when i decide to travel. 5G internet works really well as a mobile internet as long as you have a 100W power Inverter for your car. Also in my area, i consistently get close to symmetrical speeds well into the several hundreds

@daemonbyte 8 месяцев назад

When you're rural and the copper cable gives you 2mb/s then then absolutely it can provide home internet. It's changed my parents access and they'd never have gotten a cable upgrade out there

@Jonathan_O 7 месяцев назад

I’m a network engineer and I have T-Mobile home Internet. I do live in an urban area Tampa Florida but my speeds are great about 800 down 120 Up latency is always below 100 ms usually below 50ms.

@PORRFNK 8 месяцев назад

I have a 5G router, here is why: Its almost free because of company discount and same provider as my cell phone, no data limit. I live in an appartement and I want to be able to take it with me if/when I move. I want to be mobile and have a fast connection where ever I go. I want to connect my hard drives to the router and share that locally with everyone who visits me. I want full control of my router settings and use VPN on my router. 400mbps and ping is 14ms on average. I used an external antenna in the past, but my new Zyxel router has much better connection than the old Huawei, no longer need external antenna.

@theanswerisfortytwo8481 6 месяцев назад

We use it as a backup and it is not as reliable as our comcast cable internet, and also the cgnat makes it difficult to use my vpn. However, when it works it is fast and we use it as a cheap backup to our cable internet, because my job is critical. When the cable internet goes out, the speed is adequate for a couple people working from home.

@samuell.foxton4177 8 месяцев назад

As someone who manages an office network that runs off two 5G gateways (short term lease and no fibre to the building), and which has line of sight to 5G transmitters about 100m away: no. Even with failover, we still get dropouts requiring reset of the gateways at least once a week

@EddyA1337 8 месяцев назад

Any wired connection, even DSL (which most places that offer DSL offer VDSL2 bonded which can do like 300 down 100 up) is better than 5G internet for gaming, latency being the biggest issue, but for rural areas that could only get satellite, 5G is a godsend.

@jockey12022011 8 месяцев назад

Located in Australia here. Frustrated at optical fibre speeds, I stopped paying for home broadband years ago. Phone provider has plenty of data (180GB/month) for my phone plan and very fast (5G) and reliable (Telstra). I just hotspot my laptop, pc and smart tv when I get home. Those devices don't need to be connected to the internet when I'm not home. I also get to take my data anywhere I got (ie as it's tied to my phone).

@Sonic6293 8 месяцев назад

Another drawback not mentioned is that you may not have a static IP address. I went from Spectrum to T-Mobile Home Internet, and I found that my IP address is no longer local. I can't seem to get an IP address for my state unless I have a business account.

@CallardAndBowser 7 месяцев назад

It's not better than Fiber but it's perfect for most people and to only pay $30 a month for Tmobile Home Internet it's a fraction of what Fiber costs. If you unfortunately live in an Edward Rose Apartment complex they do not allow you to have an ATT fiber connection and the cable internet they provide is sub par, so getting Tmobile Home Internet is your only salvation living at an Edward Rose Property.

@pjplaysgaming367 7 месяцев назад

It’s such a gamble. I got unlucky with 5g.

@XAirForce 3 месяца назад

I’ve been living in motels for the last 5+ years and I got T-Mobile home Internet, maybe about a year ago. The cell router stopped working after a a few months and it had to be replaced which I got charged for because they didn’t make sure their package got returned so I just threw it away. I told them I live out in the middle of nowhere and could they provide a pick up which they said yes and then when the time came, they said no so I threw it away. They then came back a couple of days later and said they could and it was too late so I got charged for a piece of equipment that I tried to do the right thing for. Other than that, I’ve had a good experience with it. I can also just plug it into a battery pack when the power goes down and keep connection. It’s not going to be as capable as most fiber or high-speed cable, but it is still very good. I had Starlink and threw it away when Elon started moderating me. I also filed an FCC complaint that was never answered. If you don’t have to use Elon don’t because I personally know he can’t be trusted. The same person that won’t restart my Twitter account when he has let every right wing politician back on, so he’s a completely worthless human to me.

@Gengh13 8 месяцев назад

Another thing to consider is that there are data caps for a lot of those wireless internet in the home services.

@NNITRED 6 месяцев назад

T-Mobile is unlimited- but they tell you in the TOS that the home internet is last their bandwidth priority. They also lock you out of most of the gateway's feature so stuff like band locking is out of the question.

@Pain74312 7 месяцев назад

Last speed test i did on verizon’s 5g home got me 350 down, 10-20 up, and 20-35ms of latency (obviously depends on who you’re connecting to/testing with but still). No issues gaming but i live in a pretty urbanized area it’s definitely not for everyone

@hiRyan329329 8 месяцев назад

Out in the middle of nowhere Alabama we don't have any service providers except satellite and they are the largest scam (roughly $300/m for 40-60mbps which has a 20gb cap then will go down to 500kbps). So in turn I had to learn a LOT about cellular signals and how 4g and 5g modems and antennas work. What we worked up to was a Verizon based (only cell tower with service) phone plan essentially shoved into a $450 router that does high quality 4g LTE since we don't have 5g here (Cudy LT18) and a nice also $400 flat panel 4x4 mimo antenna to get the best possible reception. With these the house gets a nice 200-400mbps internet connection with most the time sub 100 ping for $40/m which with satellite would only net us 20mbps and a 5gb cap. Also in a higher quality 4g LTE area the router/modem can achieve 1.2gbps as it aggregates 5 signals together, a equal quality 5g modem (usually $500-$700) can achieve 2-5gbps theoretically

@A_2the_lex 8 месяцев назад

I am on a 4G home broadband connection, waiting on 5G, it is great Except*: when raining or cloudy, connection flat out cuts out, phone remains fine (on the same network) Speed is also limited artificially, provider claims against, but again phone on same network regularly achieves double the speed.

@joonglegamer9898 8 месяцев назад

I have both fiber and 5G. Fiber - any day of the year! 1-5ms latency, never any fight for bandwith, no dropouts. 5G as he say, can drop to 4g or worse, it's prone to dropouts, so for gaming it's a total no go (unless you don't have any other choices), besides...even thought most say they have or support 5G, 4G is often what you really get.